Slovenia Sees Tourism Boom, Thanks in Part to Melania Trump
The tiny European nation of Slovenia is undergoing a tourism boom partly because it's the native country of U.S. first lady Melania Trump.
First lady Melania Trump watches the Bastille Day military parade in Paris on July 14, 2017.
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Ljubljana, Slovenia (AP) -- The tiny European nation of Slovenia is undergoing a tourism boom partly because it's the native country of U.S. first lady Melania Trump.
The Slovenian Statistics Office said Monday that some 1,939,000 tourists visited the Alpine country of 2 million in the first half of this year, a 15 percent increase from the same period last year.